Device for holding fence-wires.



No. 739,130. PATENTED SEPT. 15, I903.

H. D. WHIPPLE.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING FENCE WIRES.

APPLIUATIOK FILED OCT. 30, 1902.

Inventor:

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PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY D. l/VHIPPLE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO CHARLES L. TUTTLE, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK.

DEVICE FOR HOLDING FENCE-WIRES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 739,130, dated September 15, 1903.

Application filed October 30,1902. Serial No. 129,466. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I," HENRY D. \VHIPPLE, of Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices for Holding FencelVires, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and shown in the accompanying drawings.

My invention is a device to be used with fen ce-posts for holding the horizontal strands or string-wires of a wire fence, the device being adapted to be employed with posts of any kind made from wood, metal, cement, or other material.

The invention is hereinafter fully de-- scribed, and more particularly pointed out in the claim.

The main objectof the invention is to provide a holding device for fence-wires that will securely hold the wires without bruising or marring them in a manner to reduce their strength or weaken them at the points where held.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be brought out and made to appear in the following specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part thereof.

Figure 1 is a horizontal transverse section of a fence-post, taken as on the dotted line 1 in Fig. 4, the cup of the wire-holder being axially sectioned on the dotted line 1 1 in Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of a part of a fence-post seen as indicated by arrow 2 in Fig. 4, the holding-cup being axially sectioned on the dotted line 2 in Fig. 1, a part being broken out. Fig. 3 is a face View of a part of the fence-post seen as in Fig. 4 and as indicated by arrow 3 in Fig. 2. Fig. 4, drawn to a reduced scale, shows generally the application of the invention in constructing a fence. Fig. 5, detached, shows in plan the front hollow side or face of the wire-cup. Fig. 6 shows the reverse or base surface of the cup.

A in the drawings is a fence-post of any form, either of wood, metal, or other material or kind adapted for a wire fence, B being the horizontal wires of the fence.

0 is a bolt passed transversely through the post, held to place by a screw-nut a, threaded onto its extreme projecting end, the nut bearing against a washer b. The forward projecting end of the bolt is formed into a hook c for catching the wire B, as shown in Fig. 1. A hollow metal cup I) with flaring internal cavity (1 is provided, bearing at its bottom surface or base against the post, as shown, the axis of the cup being at right angles with the adjacent face of the post, and the cavity d of the cup being in position to receive and inclose the hook c of the bolt 0.

In constructing the fence holes fare formed horizontally through the posts at the points where the latter are to be crossed by the string-wires B, as shown in Fig. 4, the wires passing diametrically across the open faces of the cups, as shown in Fig. 3. The bolts with the nuts removed are passed primarily endwise through the respective cups, openings 6, Figs. 5 and 6, being formed through them for the purpose, the bolts being also passed through the openings f in the post, as shown. The string-wires are placed in the respective upturned hooks, the latter being drawn into the cavities d of the cups by means of the threaded nuts a. By this action of the hooks the wires are given sharp bends g 9 across the edges of the cups, as appears in Figs. 1 and 2, on account of which the wires aresecurely held against either lateral or longitudinal displacement. The use of the hooks c is also of great advantage in building wire fences from the fact that when they primarily project from the respective cups and before they are drawn therein, as stated, they constitute convenient and favorable temporary rests for the longitudinal wires. By their use long lengths of the wires maybe run along the posts in the places they are to permanently occupy in the fence and be properly stretched to bring them to the required tension before finally rigidly securing them by the fasteners, as stated. This is found of great convenience and importance in practice,the building of wire fences being by the use of the hooks much simplified.

What I claim as my invention, and to secure by Letters Patent, is

desire A device of the character described com-] the cup, substantially as shown and deprising a post, a hollow cup having flaring scribed. internal cavity and having its base resting In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my against the post a rod passed through said hand, this 27th day of October, 1902, in the 5 1120st and through the base of the cup and presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

aving a hooked end disposed entirely within T I T the cavity of the cup, a nut on the opposite HENRX HIPPLE' end of said rod bearing against the opposite Vitnesses: face of the post and a wire engaged by said ENos B. XVHITMORE, IO hook and by the latter bent inward Within 1 MINNIE SMITH. 

